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Iraqi Kurds Head To Kobani To Join The Raging Battle Against ISIS

In Iraq, security forces said they had advanced to within 1.2 miles of the city of Baiji on Wednesday in a new offensive to retake the country’s biggest oil refinery that has been besieged by IS.

Global Post
作者 Global Post

Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied US-led airstrikes. Kobani, nestled on the border with Turkey, has been under assault from Islamic State militants for more than a month and its fate has become a key

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VIDEO: In Jerusalem Clashes Intensify Over Israeli Closure Of Holy Site

The clashes come as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government advanced plans to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in East Jerusalem, which is internationally recognized Palestinian land.

MintPress News Desk
作者 MintPress News Desk
APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians

There are fresh fears of a new Palestinian uprising following the outbreak of clashes in East Jerusalem. It comes after Israeli police shot dead a 32-year-old Palestinian man suspected of having tried late last night to kill a far-right Jewish activist. Moataz Hejazi’s body lay in a pool of blood among satellite dishes on the rooftop of a

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皮诺切特的智利：外国人的游乐场

由一名被指控儿童性骚扰的德国男子领导的一个农业公社改造的皮诺切特拘留和酷刑中心可以成为解开和揭露独裁时代暴行的重要关键。

Ramona Wadi
作者 Ramona Wadi
CHILE GERMAN COLONY

Ongoing investigations into human rights violations committed during Augusto Pinochet’s U.S.-backed dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990 have led Judge Mario Carroza to visit the former detention and torture center known as Colonia Dignidad (“Dignity Colony”), later renamed Villa Baviera (Villa Bavaria). According to Chilean news website

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The Forgotten Hunger Strikers Of Guantánamo Bay

Gitmo detainees have been staging hunger strikes almost since the island prison opened. Prisoners, their counsel and advocates all say force-feeding practices are purposely painful and inhumane, but the U.S. government says it’s “safe-guarding” the prisoners’ health.

Sean Nevins
作者 Sean Nevins
Guantanamo

WASHINGTON --- Within the next two weeks Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to rule on alleged abusive force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a 43-year-old Syrian national and the father of four children, sued the Obama administration in 2013 in the first case

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Death, Taxes And The Cuban Blockade

It is not just the rest of the world that is against the Cuban blockade. A majority of Americans – even a majority of Cuban Americans – favor lifting the blockade and normalizing relations with Cuba.

Matt Peppe
作者 Matt Peppe
Cuba UN Embargo

The famous expression about the only things that will happen with absolute certainty, death and taxes, is actually missing one: the annual vote in which 99% of the world's nations declare that the blockade against Cuba is illegal and must end. Yesterday, for the 23rd straight year, the United Nations General Assembly voted to end the U.S. blockade

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VIDEO: Attack On Canadian Parliament Fuels “Anti-Terror” Laws, Ignoring Ties To Mental Illness, Drug Abuse

As Canada mourns the death of a soldier gunned down while standing guard at the National War Monument in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing new antiterrorism legislation that would expand surveillance and intelligence sharing with foreign governments.

Democracy Now
作者 Democracy Now
John Kerry, John Baird

Reports: n the days since the shooting, the gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, has been identified as a convert to Islam with a history of drug abuse, criminal activity and mental illness. The incident came two days after another violent attack on Canadian troops in Quebec. Martin Couture-Rouleau, also identified as a "radicalized" Muslim convert,

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